Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

Some 19,000 are being accommodated now. If another 11 months are added to that, on the basis of an annual arrival rate of 15,000, we will get to quite a large figure for the numbers we will potentially be accommodating by the end of the year. Obviously, people also exit the system over the course of the year as they receive status-----